Abstract

In this paper we present a coder for polygon mesh connectivity that delivers the best connectivity compression rates meshes reported so far. Our coder is an extension of the vertex-based coder for triangle mesh connectivity by Touma and Gotsman[GI98]. We code polygonal connectivity as a sequence of face and vertex degrees and exploit the correlation between them for mutual predictive compression. Because low-degree vertices are likely to be surrounded by high-degree faces and vice versa, we predict vertex degrees based on neighboring face degrees and face degrees based on neighboring vertex degrees.